Anaxagoras was a maverick who lived in Ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE. He was schooled in the Milesian and Eleatic philosophical traditions and was especially interested in celestial mechanics. Chiefly, solar and lunar eclipses. His answers to Parmenides' thoughts on reality and the Milesian forms of arche as well as his insights on the causes of eclipses were prescient and in many ways correct. His suggestion that the Sun and Moon weren't gods got Anaxagoras into hot water with the establishment in Athens and narrowly escaped personal disaster. Find out more about his story in this 20 minute episode.

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